Veterinary medicine
Department of infectious and parasitic diseases
Epidemiology and risk analysis applied to veterinary sciences
Teaching
Seminar on animal and society
The importance of epidemiology is taught to undergraduate students with emphasis on veterinary epidemiology by illustrating with current examples such as the bluetongue epidemiology in Europe.
Basic veterinary public health
Based on interdisciplinary lectures, the veterinary public health issue is presented with several examples (e.g. zoonosis of pets, dioxin contamination of the food chain, epidemiosurveillance of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy) with emphasis on the role of veterinarians along the food chain.
Epidemiology applied to veterinary medicine
Applied animal epidemiology is taught to undergraduate students with emphasis on the basic notions in epidemiology (methods), screening of infectious animal diseases, different types of inquiries in descriptive epidemiology, habitat and transmission of pathogenic agents and cause/effect relation. Applied epidemiology to veterinary medicine is a precious tool for every veterinarian involved in the control and prevention of diseases.
Epidemiology and risk analysis applied to animal diseases
Epidemiology and risk analysis applied to animal diseases is taught to graduate students with emphasis on the reminder of basic notions in epidemiology, assessment, utilization, limits and interpretation of diagnostic tests, different types of inquiries used in veterinary epidemiology, sampling techniques, random errors and bias, epidemiosurveillance and epidemiovigilance, tools available to control and prevent diseases, conception and organization of collective fight against diseases, and basic risk assessment procedure.
Legal dispositions in the control of transmissible diseases
To increase awareness of future veterinarians to their role in veterinary public health, the course is taught to graduate students with emphasis on the legislative framework (notifiable diseases), the importance of a good identification, registration, tracing, mandatory notification and sectorial guides of autocontrol, the utility of the laboratory information management system (LIMS), the role of an epidemiosurveillance network in veterinary public health, the challenge and opportunities of (re)-emerging zoonoses, and the management of enzootic and epizootic diseases.
Law and veterinary medicine
The law and veterinary medicine lectures aim to initiate graduate students with the laws applied in their profession. The course has been structured in such a way that students receive simultaneously an initiation to the Belgian legal system as well as the essential elements of the laws they will have to respect in their profession.
Complements in epidemiology
Master students will be able to use epidemiological software such as Win Episcope 2. 0 ® by him/herself in order to interpret the results of diagnosis tests, investigate, calculate and discuss risk or protective factors, determine sampling size, establish a simple model to understanding the spread of the disease.
Principles, concepts and methods of risks analysis related to foodstuffs of animal origin
Master students will be able to understand and criticize microbiological and chemical risk assessment related to foodstuffs of animal origin. The student will also be able to implement simple quantitative risk assessment by using a determinist or probabilistic approach thanks to appropriate software such as @RISK Pro 4.5 ® software, Palisade UK Ltd).
Continuing education programmes
Updating the knowledge of veterinary practitioners is of major importance. Continuing education programmes are prepared on current subjects such as animal emerging infectious diseases, notifiable diseases, control and preventive disease programmes, prioritization of diseases and risk evaluation (e.g. imports).
In addition, an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional course of infectiology and epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases will be developed with several departments of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Agronomy (University of Liege), the department of Veterinary Medicine (University of Namur), two National Reference Laboratories (CERVA-CODA and ACOS WB E&B) and two international experts in the field of epidemiosurveillance.
The catalogue of educational programmes can be consulted on the Formavet website: (http://www.formavet.be) Click « catalogue » and then search for « Saegerman »
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